Today marks the official 72nd Anniversary of the U.S. Air Force! On September 18, 1947, Stuart Symington became the first Secretary of the Air Force as US Army Air Corps bases came under Air Force Command and a 4th branch of the U.S. Military was born. Through battle, training, and experience in their 72 years of service, the USAF has grown into a domineering world force of over 20,000 Pilots, 300k active troops, and more than 5,400 Aircraft across the globe.
From 15:00 GMT on the 18th of September till 07:00 GMT on the 20th of September
Win 3 battles with an ingame activity of 60% or higher using US aircraft of rank III and above, and receive one of 3 memorable decals.
You can follow your progress by clicking on your Nickname → Achievements → US Air Force Day. Tasks for victories can be completed in all game modes except “Enduring Confrontation” and “Assault”. After completing the tasks you will find the decals in “Decals → USA”.
The War Thunder Team
Comments (125)
Oh hey, look! nothing
Unfortunately its not possible to please everyone with every event. Even where there are free gifts available for all :(
All answers (3)Smin1080p, Take advantage of this occasion to fix the F-4C, and some other plane thanks! its an horror to fly right now. all plane do rabbit jump like if you got connection spike but i got 0% packet loss all day... each time you reach max speed, each time you turn to hard (with keyboard) and each time you use combat or takeoff flap in a turn
Oh hey, look. Another entitled player complaining about free stuff.
All answers (10)Trigg3rHippie, lol, what free stuff?
You could add more historical skins to the game (without being Marketplace). Is a kinda of shame that such iconic aircrafts like P-47s has barely no additional camouflages since there are plenty of sources on the internet
and pictures
IlustriousKnown, Gaijin dev team: "I'm going to pretend I didn't see that"
They only care about the US players to milk money out of. Realize that some time.. It is all about nazis and commies..
All answers (1)DaveSchilling, Oooh waaah waaah
Take advantage of this occasion to fix the F-4C, thanks!
EXACTLY!
I'm pretty sure you already know this but I'll do it anyway for those reading who don't: If you have found a bug then please report it here: https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/forum/655-moderated-bug-reports/ Watch the videos and read the pinned post for help filling it out so we can use it.
_82AB_GruberRd, reported a bug regarding the heavy bombers landing in missions without bases or land airfield, infact, if carrier landing is your only option then non naval units cannot Change their loadout if required is they will re-spawn in the air, to this day i found no reply from the mods, it's still pending and possibly never to be solved. as this issue has been talked about for years now
Nice decals
No
Captain_War_Wolf, Yes
Not even a camo for an american plane. Yawn, pass.
Can't we get new aircraft skins rather then repackaged decals?
kinda boring tbh
wish they released more emblem which reek of freedom
P-51B when?
I'd even accept a P-51 C and a Malcolm hood option too please
i think its already inw arthunder, just a VERY limited aircraft, has 4 .50 cals...botime has one i think
KotaFox, No he does not since there is no B nor any C (same plane, different factories). Bo has the TL P-51A which is very different.
last year we got XF5F, this year- NOTHING. Yaykes
Last year was the 70th anniversary and thats why they gave a plane
All answers (2)*grahaldmills, "Today marks the official 72nd Anniversary of the U.S. Air Force!" 72-1=70? Good to know you can do math.
2 years ago** https://warthunder.com/en/news/4978-special-us-air-force-day-get-the-xf5f-skyrocket-en
This U.S Air Force event celebration is about as bland and dull as the all silver camouflage on that P-47... Like I don't want to be rude but, in regards for effort just 3 new decals, where you can only get one of them for free. Just wow...